Domenico guarino



(No Model.)

D. GUARINO.

GAR FENDER.

No. 572,984. Patented Deo. 15, 1896.

\A Trim/ELS UNITED STATES PATENT QEETCE.

DOMENICO GUARINO, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CAR-FENDER.

SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent No. 572,984, dated December 15, 18296.

Application iiled March 7,1896. Serial No, 582,207. (No model.)

To alt whom it may concern.'

Be it known that'I, DOMENICO GUARINO, a subject of the King of Italy, and a resident of New York city, county of New York, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Fenders, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to improvements in car-fenders of the class adapted for use upon trolley or other street-railway cars; and it consists of certain improvements on the construction described and claimed in my United States Patent, Serial No. 504,347, allowed November 19, 1895.

The invention will be hereinafter fully described, and specifically set forth in the annexed claims.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure l is a perspective view of my improved device, showing the same attached to the front of a car. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional elevation, and Fig. 3 is a sectional plan view taken on the line x Qc of Fig. 2.

In the practice of my invention I provide a truck A with ordinary traction-wheels A and a iioor A2, which said floor is provided with slots ce and a upon its front and rear edges, respectively, which slots are adapted to engage with a longitudinallymovable coupling, as will be hereinafter fully described. Pivotally attached to the said truck by means of a pin l) is a turn-table B, which turn-table is provided in its rearward portion with a slot b', which slot registers vertically with slots a and a of the floor A2 of the truck A.

Mounted upon the turn-table B is a box C, and through the rearward wall of said box is attached a coupling D, which coupling is provided with a slotI d, which engages with a latch d. The coupling D is further provided with a projection cl2, which engages with the slots of the truck-floor A2 and the slot of the turn-table B, whereby the vturn-table B and the truck A are maintained in horizontal alinement with each other when the car is moving in a straight direction; but when curves are encountered the segmental slots a and a' allow rotary motion to the truck Aindependent of the turn-table B. If desirable, for the purpose of moving a body, the latch CZ may be lifted out of engagement with the coupling D, whereby said coupling may be moved rearwardly until its projection d2 is out of engagement with the slots of the turntable B and the truck A, whereby said turntable and all its connections may be revolved upon the truck A and placed in any desirable angle relative to the said truck A.

Depending from the forward end of the turn-table and pivotally attached thereto is a wheel-guard E, said guard being journaled upon a rod e, which rod is carried by suitable hangers e/ upon the turn-table B.

Depending from the bottom ot' the guard E are two hangers c2, to which hangers are jouriialed small traction-wheels e3, which wheels engage with the railroad-tracks l and maintain the guard Ein parallel alinement therewith. When the device is to be used upon a cable-railroad, the guard E is provided with a downwardly-projecting lug er1, adapted to travel in the cable-slot.

The front wall C of the box C is provided with vertical slots c, which are adapted to receive the rearward ends of the side walls F of the carrier F. This said carrier is pivotally attached to the said box C by means of pivots f, which pass through the lower portion of the side walls C2 of said box.. The said side walls F of the carrier i F are provided at their rearward portions with projecting arms f', upon which arms is mounted a weight G, which weight must be suftciently heavy to maintain the carrier F in the position indicated in Fig. l of the drawings when the device is in operation.

i The upper forward ends of the walls F/ are provided with arms h, to which arms is pivotally attached the front wall F2 of the carrier F. rIhis said wall is provided with pneumatic cushions h to receive the impact of a body coming in contact therewith.

Hinged to the forward ends of the side Walls F are doors H. These doors are normally maintained in the position shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings by means of swinging guards I and hooks J, the said guards being provided with slots e', which engage with lugs i2 upon the side walls F of the carrier F. These said IOO guards are mounted upon pivots i of the doors I-I, and their upward motion'is vlimited by means of stops i", which are also mounted upon said doors II. The guards I are further provided with weights i5, which will maintain them in vertical position when they are released from lugs They lare further provided with pins i, which engage with the hooks J of the operating mechanism. operating mechanism consists of a downwardly-projecting cushioned guard K, which comprises cross-piecesV 7s and uprights 7c', which have weights k2 attached to their upper ends to maintain the guard in a forward direction, as illustrated in Fig. 2, the said cross-pieces 7u being provided upon their front surfaces with pneumatic cushions 7c3, and the said guard K beingpivotally attached tothe side walls F of"the'receiver F by means of pivots 7a4.

Projecting; from-the sides of the'uprights 7a of the guard K lare pins'7t5, which engage witlr slots j of the hooks J. Engaging-with the front wallwF2 of the carrier F'is 'a rearwardly-projectingrodl L, which is pivotedA tov an upwardly-projecting ktripllever M, which the Yguards lEand E" when meetinga stone or other obstacleafcordA or rope 2 iis fattachedto the guardE, so that a motormanor driver canflift said-guards, asillustratedI by [dotted lines in Fig. l of the drawingsfor said guards maybe maintained inI an upward position by means of a hook 3.

Y the drawings.

The 'swinging doors II are hinged'tothe sidey walls -F by means `of"verticalwrods 01 pins h2.

Said' doOlSf' are further secured totthe front wall F2 ofthe carrier 'bymcans vof hooks and' eyes Z andl, respectively.

In-'the operation'of the'device,it being set as lindicated in lFig;i2, .the car isf attached theretobymeans of the couplings D" andl D2,

and*motionbeinggiven to the car the-devicei willy bepushed' in= front thereof vuntilf it! willl accidentally come in'contact*with-afpersonor body, whensaid body willstrike'the projecting cushioned' portions 7c of-tlieguard K1' and move ysaid guard radially andrearwardlyuntil the hooks J are released from the pins *i6-of thefswin gin g `guards I; whereby` saidk guards' will drop andthe doors II be permitted to close,'and= thefwall F2 willvbe moved rearwardly, until the'rodLf provides suiiicient movement tothe lever M -to release said lef' ver from the'cross-rod N, when the'weight` Saidy (Illustrated in Fig. 2 ofv vice will operate perfectly when the swinging guard K comes in contact with a body, airpressure against the front wall F2 will have no effect upon the operative mechanism, owing to thevfact that the hooks J maintain the doors II lin their open position, and said doors can only be released by the guard K, which, owing to the small area of its lower cushioned portion, vcan not be operated by pressure ofair.

I do notconfine myself to the'specific details of 'mechanical construction as herein shown and' described', it being obvious that under' the scope of my invention I am entitled to slight'variations of Vdetail. which may be suggested duringthe-process of constructing a full-sized fender; neit-her doI confine my self to the use of my device in' connection with a street-railway car, as the device will operate* equally well when yattached to the front of a locomotive.

Having thus Vdescribed my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is-

1. A car-fender comprising a truck'having mounted -thereon a turn-table, a wheelfguard and a.' box, the said box having mounted thereon a rearwardly-weighted 'carrier and a trip-lever adapted to engage with said carrier, which' carrier comprises two side walls, a swinging front wall and hinged doors adapted to fold over upon the said front wall, and al swinging weighted guard which engages with slotted hooks adapted to maintain the said doors in an open position, substantially as shown and described.

2.- In acar-fender, the combination of a truck adapted.to'becoupled to the front of a car, saidv truck havingunounted thereon a turn-table; wheelguards, a` boxupon which is mou n-teda rearwardlylweighted carrier and a trip-lever 'adapted' to engage'with said carri'er, and swinging-sectionaldoors; with a swinging guard and hooks adapted vto'engage with Ithe-1saidldoors,said guard adapted to operate the said trip-lever-fand release thel swinging doors, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony'thatIclaini the foregoingas my invention I have signed my'name, in presence of two witnesses', this/4th day of March, 1896.

DQMENICO GUARINO.

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